Flannery O'Connor
Selected Bibliography

The following list is a bibliography of the major full-length works of biography and criticism on Flannery O'Connor and her work. It is not intended to be exhaustive, but it is a good place to start for general studies on O'Connor.

Asals, Frederick.  Flannery O’Connor: The Imagination of Extremity.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007 (2ed.).

Brinkmeyer, Robert H., Jr. The Art and Vision of Flannery O’Connor. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993.

Bacon, Jon Lance. Flannery O’Connor and Cold War Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Baumgaertner, Jill P.  Flannery O’Connor: A Proper Scaring.  Wheaton, IL: Harold Shaw Publishers, 1988.

Cash, Jean.  Flannery O’Connor: A Life. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002.

Ciuba, Gary.  Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007.

Coles, Robert.  Flannery O’Connor’s South.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.

Edmondson, Henry T.  Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O’Connor’s Response to Nihilism.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002.

Eggenschwiler, David.  The Christian Humanism of Flannery O’Connor.  Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1972.

Elie, Paul. The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage. New York: Farrar, 2003.

Feeley, Kathleen.  Flannery O’Connor: Voice of the Peacock. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010.

Gentry, Marshall Bruce. Flannery O’Connor’s Religion of the Grotesque. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1986.

Giannone, Richard.  Flannery O’Connor and the Mystery of Love.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Giannone, Richard. Flannery O’Connor: Hermit Novelist. Urbana:  University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Gooch, Brad.  Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor.  New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2009.

Gordon, Sarah.  Flannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination.  Athens: University of Georgia Presss, 2000.

Gordon, Sarah (ed.).  Flannery O’Connor: In Celebration of Genius.  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000.

Gordon, Sarah (et. al.).  A Literary Guide to Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008.

Hawkins, Peter.  The Language of Grace: Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and Iris Murdoch.  Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 1983.

Kilcourse, George.  Flannery O’Connor’s Religious Imagination: A World with Everything Off Balance. New York: Paulist Press, 2001.

Kinney, Arthur F.  Flannery O’Connor’s Library: Resources of Being.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.

Lake, Christina Bieber.  The Incarnational Art of Flannery O’Connor.  Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2005.

 Magee, Rosemary.  Conversations with Flannery O’Connor.  Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1987.

Martin, Carter W.  The True Country: Themes in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor.  Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968.

McKenzie, Barbara.  Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.
O’Gorman, Farrell.  Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.

Schloss, Carol.  Flannery O’Connor’s Dark Comedies: The Limits of Inference.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.

Srigley, Susan.  Flannery O’Connor’s Sacramental Art. Notre Dame, IN:  University of Notre Dame Press, 2004.

Sykes, John.  Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and the Aesthetic of Revelation.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007.

Westling, Louise.  Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O’Connor.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985.

Whitt, Margaret Earley.  Understanding Flannery O’Connor.  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.

Wood, Ralph C.  Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South.  Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004.

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